The unemployment rate in Western Australia has reached its highest since 2002 and, despite a new promise of 150,000 more jobs, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry warns there will be more short-term pain before any long-term employment gains.

A police officer captured on CCTV punching a man in the head seven times in Fremantle in 2017 has a previous criminal conviction for unlawfully assaulting a man during an arrest at an Australia Day fireworks display in 2006.

A grandmother had properties worth more than $2 million sold off underneath her by a relative without her knowledge, all because of a form that gave him unfettered power to do whatever he wanted with her estate.

Ariana Pila was in a comatose state 12 months ago, unable to eat, walk or talk after contracting anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. But following a miraculous recovery, she is now planning to walk the Great Wall of China.

Toxic foam used by firefighters has poisoned the ground in Bullsbrook in Perth's north-east, and residents — left with houses that are shedding value and water that's unsafe to drink — want the Federal Government to act.

Embattled wave power company Carnegie Clean Energy will get $2.6 million from the WA Government and nine weeks to prove that it can fund its $26 million share of the $53 million Albany wave project, billed as Australia's first commercial-scale wave farm.

The home-grown technology of Carnegie Clean Energy to harvest the power of waves has, until now, been irresistible to politicians of all stripes and thousands of small investors, but a storm has hit and the wave energy dream appears in doubt.

New investigations reveal how Pilbara businesswoman Veronica Macpherson spent millions of dollars of investors' money on jet-setting, parties with celebrities and a rock band, while the suspected 'Ponzi' scheme she masterminded was collapsing.

Holding police to account is the aim of workshops inspired by an anti-racist activist movement teaching people how to safely and legally record their interactions with officers using their mobile phones

They have travelled the world, pushing the limits of exploration of the most challenging caves, but the Thai rescue will undoubtedly be the pinnacle of achievement for two Australian members of the Wet Mules diving group.

The decision by a WA bureaucrat to redact the word "Aboriginal" from official documents creates an outcry among archivists, genealogists and historians, who are pushing for the registrar's power to be restricted.

The corporate watchdog has accused former Quintis founder Frank Wilson of allowing the company to release information that was misleading or deceptive in a letter sent to the ASX the same day he quit his sandalwood empire.

The construction union and one of its WA officials have been fined more than $50,000 after the official gave Chevron workers an expletive-laden spray, calling them "f***ing dog c***s" for leaving the union.